Photo: John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images “This may be either a new rock bottom for me or the best thing to ever come out of my brain,” Colleen Hoover began in an Instagram Story on March 18. What she presented was not a forthcoming romance novel — the genre upon which her best-seller fame …
Photo: Mark Cassar/Focus Features This article will be updated throughout the month as more movies are available to rent on demand. The Oscars have come and gone, which means we can now get serious about 2025 movies! Almost three months into the New Year, we’ve seen hardly anything that could be called a smash …
Photo: Janus Films Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia is an existential drama masquerading as a comedy masquerading as a thriller. The French director, whose best-known film Stateside remains 2014’s sunny, rambling queer mystery Stranger by the Lake, specializes in these kinds of slippery genre hybrids, movies that start off as one thing and eventually become other …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Disney This article was originally published on May 26, 2023. However, Disney’s commitment to mining past IP for fresh, nostalgia-fueled dollars means that we must continue to update this list every several months for the foreseeable future. The latest classic to meet this fate is Snow White. When, at the height …
Photo: Apple TV+ Every Robin Hood for himself. The inherent spiritual (and mortal) paradox of American life. It’s not only easy but nigh on downright justifiable to consider your criminal deeds for the greater good when you and yours are a ragtag few in dire need of an inhabitable life. Dope Thief’s third chapter …
Photo: Walt Disney Studios If there’s one truth about our world it’s that when a beloved Disney cartoon becomes a maligned Disney live-action remake, there’s always a lore drop. Sometimes this takes the form of a villain backstory — consider the spinoff films Maleficent or Cruella, or the detail that Gaston is a “war …
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Spoilers follow for Severance season two, episode ten, “Cold Harbor.” There’s a scene in Severance’s season-two finale that feels inevitable and impossible at the same time. To this point, the show has maintained a nearly impervious wall between grief-stricken widower Mark Scout and his alternate self, imprisoned Lumon Innie Mark S. They are intimately …
Photo: Front Row Filmed Entertainment Mayor Steve Meiner looked almost apologetic on Wednesday at Miami Beach’s City Hall as he declared he would withdraw his own proposal, which threatened to terminate the arthouse theater O Cinema’s current lease and grant funding because it had screened the Oscar-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary No Other Land. At times …
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Photo: Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images It’s Friday afternoon. The sun is shining. The weekend hovers on the horizon with good times ahead. It’s been a quiet week, all considered, with no additional legal mishegoss from the ongoing It Ends With Us lawsuit pile-on and then … wait … no … Justin Baldoni and …
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Photo: Kyle M/Spotify Earlier this week, actor, director, and Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney teased the release of a new project in an Instagram video. Speaking in the nervous tone of a celebrity about to issue a public apology or reveal a scary health diagnosis, Mooney explained that “the last couple years have …
